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If you were to ask your young person who Jesus is, what kind of answer will you get? Many youth groups today are only focusing on the relationship and issues, and not on the intellect on why Christianity is true. Hence over the last couple of decades many Christians cannot answer some of the basic questions about what Christianity is all about and why it is true.
In 2005 there was a seminal work by Christian Smith and Melissa Lundquist Denton entitled Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. The main finding in this work was that that American teenagers are incredibly inarticulate about their religious beliefs, and most are virtually unable to offer any serious theological understanding.
On the Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob defines this moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD) from some the data from Smith and Lundquist, and explains how contemporary expressions of the Christianity are not reflecting a biblical understanding of Christianity to a post modern culture, let alone being prepared to engage the culture with the gospel of Christ.
If you have any questions about what you have heard in this show today, please reach out to us and share you comments. You can reach us by email at [email protected]. If you would more information about Rob, you can find that at https://roblundbergapologetics.com/about. You can also find him on his Youtube channel
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If you were to ask your young person who Jesus is, what kind of answer will you get? Many youth groups today are only focusing on the relationship and issues, and not on the intellect on why Christianity is true. Hence over the last couple of decades many Christians cannot answer some of the basic questions about what Christianity is all about and why it is true.
In 2005 there was a seminal work by Christian Smith and Melissa Lundquist Denton entitled Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. The main finding in this work was that that American teenagers are incredibly inarticulate about their religious beliefs, and most are virtually unable to offer any serious theological understanding.
On the Let's Get Real Podcast with Rob Lundberg, Rob defines this moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD) from some the data from Smith and Lundquist, and explains how contemporary expressions of the Christianity are not reflecting a biblical understanding of Christianity to a post modern culture, let alone being prepared to engage the culture with the gospel of Christ.
If you have any questions about what you have heard in this show today, please reach out to us and share you comments. You can reach us by email at [email protected]. If you would more information about Rob, you can find that at https://roblundbergapologetics.com/about. You can also find him on his Youtube channel